![]() ![]() Sufi Sarmast rebelled against the order of the mullahs with his poetry and philosophy, based on the doctrine of An’al Haqq – I am the truth. The clergy held enormous power over the impoverished masses, and persecution of religious minorities was the order of the day. Sachidino, Sachoo (Truthful) and Sachal Sarmast were all names given to Hazrat Abdul Haq Farooqi due to his Sufi efforts, through which he challenged the rigid thinking of the clerics of his time.Īlso called ‘Shair-e-Haft Zaban’ because he wrote poetry in seven languages – among them Sindhi, Urdu, Persian, Punjabi and Baloch – his time saw the decline of the Kalhora dynasty and the rise of the Talpur rule in Sindh. Hazrat Sufi Sachal Sarmast, one of the great mystics of Sindh, is known as the second Hazrat Mansoor Hallaj for his poetry and philosophy.
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